[lbo-talk] Fun with search engines: Can't you hear them ringing out?

Michael Smith mjs at smithbowen.net
Thu Jun 28 05:51:06 PDT 2007


On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 06:55 -0500, John Adams wrote:
> So I got curious to see if our library had anything by the recently
> deceased Iraqi poet Nazik al-Malaika, and the search engine suggested,
> "Did you mean Nazi balalaika?"

I feel the immininence of the lyric muse:

Can't you hear that Nazi balalaika Playing tunes by good old Julius Streicher...



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